Word: afghanistan
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Harvard will represent Germany, Afghanistan, and Honduras this year, and six delegates for each country will be chosen. The subjects to be discussed at this year's Model League meeting will be, munitions control, international propaganda, activities of terrorist groups, sanctions, regional pacts, and non-tariff trade barriers. In addition a model session of the Governing Body of the international Labor Organization will be held to discuss the question of international regulation of hours of labor...
...House of Commons last week Labor Party Leader George Lansbury stormed for 40 minutes against "this greatest menace to individual liberty! It would incriminate the Bishop of Birmingham for his sermons against British bombing of helpless tribesmen in Afghanistan. Indeed, what possessor of a copy of Our Savior's blessed Sermon on the Mount would be safe? He might use it to seduce a simple sailor...
...League defenders had victories to claim. The 15th Assembly was most successful as a membership drive. After much preliminary palaver Red Russia was given the right hand of capitalist fellowship (TIME, Oct. 1). And just before adjournment Afghanistan and Ecuador became 59th and 60th nations to join the fold. That left only two potent countries outside the League: Brazil and the U. S., with Japan and Germany withdrawn...
...Afghanistan, where every shepherd carries a rifle, and boiling in oil is part of the criminal code, is the home of the world's most rugged individualists. But Afghanistan, the nation, is a far more decorous member of the League of Nations than it would have been even five years ago. There are schools in Afghanistan today, and a national university. Credit for its gradual civilization must go to three kings: 1) the chuckleheaded Amanullah, who built racetracks, Roman arches, cinemas, and tried to force his outraged subjects into trousers until they rose up and chased him from...
...theory small countries like Afghanistan and Ecuador must pay anywhere from $20,000 to $60,000 dues each year for the privilege of being League members. In his speech of acceptance Gonzalo Zaldumbide, Ecuador's Minister to Switzerland, ingenuously admitted that the reason his country had delayed so long accepting the League's invitation was that his country wanted to be sure it was going to be worth the money...